Repeat Performance (1947)

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   benhere

   https://ok.ru/video/273231841955 6 years 4 months ago
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   Camille Deadpan

   Barney Page: Haven't you any respect for my judgement?
   Sheila Page: How about my judgement?
   Barney Page: Darling, you're only a woman. You're not expected to have either judgement or intelligence.
   Sheila Page: But I do have intuition. I know instinctively this role is wrong for me. 15 minutes ago
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   Siskoid

   Now that is has been restored, 1947's Repeat Performance makes for a great New Year's Eve movie, as it's about the past year's regrets and the new year's resolutions and back to those regrets when you can't keep them. Joan Leslie plays an actress who kills her husband in self-defense on New Year's Eve and wishes she could Mulligan 1946 and avoid the mistakes that led to these circumstances. In Twilight Zone fashion, it happens. But this isn't Capra, it's cold, deadly Noir, and Fate cannot be so easily cheated. The most obvious thing to anyone watching is that she should have used that year to divorce that boozing, abusive cad of hers, but we have to take as given that she loves him even if he's no good for her (it's Noir, he's an Homme Fatal!). Besides its plot and ticking calendar, the movie also has some cracking lines, an amusing bit with a waiter (I wish I had the talent required to supercut that recurring bit of business in classic films), a gay character, and Mrs. Howell (I mean, Natalie Schafer) as an obnoxious patron of the arts. Time travel is my poison, and it's nice to see it surprisingly slipped into my 1940s Noir drink like this. 4 years 4 months ago

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